Word: odikro
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...Ofori had not long been dead when his good friend Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa, subchief of Akim Abuakwa. disappeared. The Odikro's servant and two pygmy followers also vanished. For nine months Gold Coast authorities quietly investigated. Then they arrested eight natives, charged them with murdering the Odikro. In time the eight stood in the prisoner's dock in Accra's white, sweltering courthouse. They rolled their eyes, cast covertly accusing glances at each other, sweated while witnesses testified...
...witness said he had seen the Odikro entering the late Sir Ofori's ahinfie. Another claimed that he had seen him offered a drink, then bludgeoned on the head from behind. A third had seen the Odikro, unconscious, tied in a chair with a long knife thrust between his jaws. The Odikro's blood trickled down the knife, dripped into a wooden bowl. A fourth said he had been handed the bowl of blood, ordered to paint Sir Ofori's stool with it. As the jurors could see, the stool had been painted. Fitted together, these bits...
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